Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she will consider businesspeople for vice president.
In an interview with NBC, Clinton said she’s not limiting her search for a running mate to elected politicians.
“I think we should look widely and broadly,” Clinton said of her VP search. “It’s not just people in elective office. It is successful businesspeople. I am very interested in that.”
Clinton continued to say she appreciated billionaire businessman Mark Cuban’s openness to serving as her running mate.
Cuban told NBC he would ‘absolutely’ consider being Clinton’s vice president, “but the key would be that she’d have to go more to the center.”
Clinton had previously been thought to be choosing from a smattering of Democratic officials elected nationwide. Her decision to look into the business world may be a recognition of how Donald Trump’s lack of political experience could serve as an asset in a general election matchup.
